One word can sum up the first half of the miniseries....WOW!!!...maybe 3 WOW WOW WOW.

I did'nt realize just how much I missed Farscape. Now i really really miss the series. Damn that was good! Cant wait till tomorrow night. Ill be sad after its over tomorrow. I miss those characters and that beautiful Claudia Black.

SPOILER>..................Wow so the Peacekeeper Sebations are actually Humans taken from Earth over 12,000 years ago and genetically enhanced to be peacekeepers for that race. WOW. They changed over time to what they are today because thier masters were gone. Sweet.

I can saw WOW - about your post. Just because it's way different than my take.

In general, I thought the first half tonight was good, but not great. It lacked energy. There was something just a little blah about it. Can't put my finger on what. The effects were up to snuff, the cast was in character... dunno. I think the scene that showed it best was when D'argo's son rescued D'argo and Chianna from a grisly death and everybody was like "oh yeah, hi."

On the other hand, the show was in my mind WAY better than most of the final season, which is good. I found the final season disjointed, purposeless and not nearly as interesting as the ones that came before.

So I did enjoy the first half, but it didn't have me overly pumped. I'm hoping for more from the second half.

As for the peacekeeper thing, I saw that coming a mile away. I might have missed some dialogue, though, because the part about them being from Earth and such is not what I heard at all. Rather, that the PeaceKeepers were the enforcement arm of what the counselor-guys would mediate. I didn't ever get the sense that they were actually human or that they had been specially bred/trained for the duty - just that they were a race (sebatian) that nobody had a beef with.

I just infered Earth from what he said. A planet far removed from everyone else on the outter spiral edge of the galaxy. They were clothed in animal skins and they took some of them and genetically advanced thier evolution and stuff.

I think the dialogue and Claudia Blacks reactions pretty much said it all. That and the fact the head reptile guy made an earlier comment that clearly was foreshadowing (about Human and Serbations cross mating)

I thought the first part started out a little slow, but picked up as it went on. I hadn't seen it in awhile so didn't even recognize Sikozu with her punk rock look. It was just so good to have Farscape back on television, I realize how much I miss it.

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I just infered Earth from what he said. A planet far removed from everyone else on the outter spiral edge of the galaxy. They were clothed in animal skins and they took some of them and genetically advanced thier evolution and stuff.

Yes, it was...off, for some reason. Who knows - maybe they couldn't get the same voice actor back for some reason or another.

While the show was outstanding (as pretty much always), one thing that always bugged me was the characters' ability to live in outer space in the sub-zero vaccuum that it is. I realize that there's some basis of fact buried in there somewhere, but it has always irked me.

And Earth is once again somehow involved in the grand scheme of things in this part of the galaxy (the whole Peacekeeper thing). Interesting...

So, how is this story going to turn out? I can't wait until tonight.

All I want to know is this - where can I buy the DVD of this?

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I thought it was enjoyable from the viewpoint of someone who only caught a handful of episodes in the original run (no cable at the time) but has tried to catch up somewhat during Sci Fi's marathon run in the last few weeks.

The lighting and makeup seemed a bit off from the original series and not as detailed. Kind of picky but one of things that facinates me about the series is watching the Henson crew integrate the puppets and live actors together through some pretty low tech tricks The other effects were pretty nice though.

I missed the series recap, grrrr. :x After watching this last night, I am again struck with how good the series was and wonder what Sci-Fi thinking when they dropped this for Stargate. :shock: Not that I dislike Stargate, but you think that one channel would have room for two hit shows.

I thought that the show last night was good. After reading that they had destroyed the sets I thought there was no chance of a return. I think a read somewhere that they might even do a theatrical movie now.

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My first reaction was to realize how much I missed the show. Hopefully, if they get good ratings they can do more miniseries or something. Talk about feeling like a dummy, I completley missed the Peacekeepers being from Earth. I just figured if a Vulcan and a human could procreate so could a Human and a Sabatan. I noticed the floating in space without a spacesuit and not dying and just wrote it off to, its showbiz.

And I hope to hell Jewel is'nt dead. We only got to see her for maybe 2 minutes all together. Poor Tammy spent more time in the makeup chair than on screen in that first half. Hope she comes back in part 2.

Im watching it for the 4th time right now before part 2 comes on and i get a good chuckle everytime the Emporer Scarren tells Rygil he will die but only on his order and poor old Rygil says "ok" hehehehe..

Anyone think Dargo's son Jothee looks a lot like Gowron from Star Trek?

The Peacekeepers having a more noble, actually friendly peace-keeping attitude was mentioned in a previous episode(s?). Early in the 3rd season when they go a historical site of a famous PK battle and wind up going back in time to said battle... the PKers were portrayed as a very honorable force in that episode. I think Aeryn commented on how things went downhill from there at some point.

But the revelation (confirmation?) about the human-peacekeeper link was a nice touch... but also hinted at before early in the 4th season (I'm terrible with FS episode titles... was it "What once was lost?") when Crichton finds an artifact with Sebacean and human writings on it on the Eidolon homeworld.

Okay, the whole assumption that the story of the peacekeeper's origin indicated they were from earth is, in my humble opinion, wrong. being a complete geek, i remembered that it was pointed out quite some time ago that peacekeeper's were evolved from something other than apes (i think it was birds or something) and that explained some racial vulnerabilities (heat, if I recall correctly). I find it highly unlikely that the Eidalons would bother changing the genetic makeup to include birds in the peacekeeper's ancestral tree.

...god, i need to get a life.

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George Lucas could only hope in his wildest dreams to make anything even remotely close to the pure brillance of this show.

Notice the little thing near the end when Crichton asks Aeryn if its all worth it, and what peace is worth. Right when Crichton walks off to his Wormhole of Mass Destruction, you can see a moment's realization on Aeryn's face. She knows what will happen to Crichton when he uses his machine.

It's the little things like that that just make this show seem so real, so amazing.

Damn you Sci-Fi.

Edit: As far as Dargo goes...well, let's put it this way - Superhero/villian rule number one: If you don't actually see the person die onscreen, then one can assume that they truly aren't dead.

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Yup, which is always suspect in TV Land. I was also curious about the last few words he spoke to Chiana. "I'll find you", or something along those lines. I thought it odd the writers would have him say that if they truly intended for him to die.

We never saw him die, so I prefer to believe D'argo lived and somehow his way off the planet in enough time. (Just like I prefer to believe Zhaan somehow survived being dissembled by a wormhole. )

As far as D'argos's death is concerned... if we can buy that they reassembled Chriton and Aeryn from gibs in Rygel's stomach, then we can buy that D'argo's still alive. Best suicidal last stand line ever?

It does make me miss the series as well. I don't think they will bring him back though. They were killing people off right and left. There are surely plot mechanisms they could use to bring them back but I think they are focused on a big screne movie next. I would prefer to have a couple more years of series. They would need a new plot to drive the show, since they wrapped up most of the motivations from the series with this miniseries.

It does indeed kick the crap out of Lucas so far. I will withhold judgement until next summer, though.

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